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Hidden Gems Of Connecticut
The latest Hidden Gem in Connecticut is a unique setting for disc golf.
VERNON, CT — Disc golf aficionados can sniff out a good course anywhere in Connecticut and this week, they can follow their noses to a point about a mile off the Exit 66 Interstate-84 interchange, up a hill, past a vast array of community gardens and into some woods. There, in an isolated corner next to the Vernon Center Middle School campus, sits the Ecker Hill Disc Golf Course.
The course was completed in October 2014 and was designed by Jasin Bayer and Clayton Davidson. Ecker Hill has a permanent layout with 18 baskets and rubber tee pads along a mixed layout of wooded, open, hilly and flat fairways.
Ecker Hill Disc Golf Course in Vernon. (Chris Dehnel/Patch)
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Some of the hills are rather steep.
How versatile is the terrain? It's also part of the middle school cross country course.
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Ecker Hill Disc Golf Course in Vernon. (Chris Dehnel/Patch)
Click here to see a course map. And click here and here to see more on the course via the Vernon Parks and Recreation website and on Facebook, respectively.
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The Hidden Gems series features out-of-the-way mom and pop restaurants, small specialty stores you may have never heard of, little-known historical markers or beautiful nature spots that may be a bit off the beaten path, all located within Connecticut.
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